The internet is super smart. If you do something that is cool, that's actually worth people's time, then they'll adopt it. If you do something that's not cool and sucks, you can spend as many marketing dollars as you want, [they] just won't
Gabe NewellThe programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future. You're going to look like you have magic powers compared to everybody else.
Gabe NewellIf you look at a multi-player game, it's the people who are playing the game who are often more valuable than all of the animations and models and game logic that's associated with it.
Gabe NewellTraditional credentialing really doesn't have a lot of predictive value to if people will be successful.
Gabe Newell